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Re: My truck
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lugnet.admin.general
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Tue, 13 Oct 1998 20:51:31 GMT
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JSPROAT@GEOCITIES.COMnomorespam
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Todd Lehman wrote:
> An extra measure of checking might be to echo back the entire formatted
> article (just prior to injection) on a web page to the user for
> confirmation. OTOH someone would probably need a pretty keen eye to detect
> wraps of lines 81-83 characters wide, and such a feature might give a false
> sense of security.
I like how this is handled in Deja News -- the user is presented with a
choice to "send without preview" or "preview message". At the message
preview page is another set of choices -- "send" and "return to
editing".
As for the line wraps, it's usually pretty easy to judge by eye if a
long DAT line has been wrapped.
Cheers,
- Sproat
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| (...) What if WRAP=VIRTUAL were used in the TEXTAREA tag instead of WRAP=HARD when posting to lugnet.cad.dat? That oughta do it, except (a) now the paragraphs of text wouldn't wrap, and (b) it wouldn't work if the ng name were typed into the (...) (26 years ago, 13-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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